say that. this Statement makes sensé, that it is in keeping with

cepted by a large proportion of the electorate. The Labor leaders, of course, ane denouncing it as hypo- critical nonsense. He is being accused of extracting “the maximum political -advantage” from his telévision’ ap- pearance with President. Eisehower,

his record and is quite likely to be ac- .

arfd even of taking credit for the

Unreasonable Request — - ‘The Provincial Command of the’

Canadian Legion speaks for a body |

which is held in the highest esteem in this Proyince, and desetyedly so. We are afraid, however, that it has gotten off on the wrong foot im ad- vocating—-at this’ junctute—that the plans for the new Borden-Tormen- tine car ferry be changed to ‘provide for railway transportation along the Hnes of the M.V. Abegweit. This: would mean‘ further delay, in build- ing the_boat, which is now schedul- ed for completion in 1961, and would provide’ further, excuse for delay in constructing the. Northumberland

- Strait causeway to which the Con-

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are now definitely committed... . This egmmitment must, we as- gume, have been given with the con-

eurrence of the Federal Government,

although no publie announcement to that effect has been made. If this were noj the case, it would place our ~ Federal Members, who campaigned vigorously in the provincial contest,

= # a very awkward position. Apart ~ from campaign promises, however,

we have \every reason to expect favorable report on the causeway.’ In the’ meantime,-an additional ferry for trucks and automobiles is what’ we need most, and the sooner we

get it the better. This type of boat

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“eould be used elsewhere than on the

That is naturally “an important con- sideration with the federal authori- ties. > K took a long time to eonvince Ottawa as to our requirements in this: respect, and we are. suffering now from that delay, for which both ¥ party governments are responsible. “ When ‘the announcement at last came through that the boat was to be con- structed, as speedily as possible, there

Island, when the sn Kar is ready,

was general satisfaction. When final

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assurance was given that it would be. an icebreaker, the satisfaction appeared-to be unanimous. The only @oneern expressed was with our pre-~ sent precarious position. To wait for another “Abegweit”, under these cir- eumstances, would only be to invite disaster, not to speak of the fact thet such a request, could hardly fall te be regarded at Ottawa as unreasonable. ,

British Election Called

° * Prime Minister Mhemillan has

ealled the “British general election for October 8, and the likelihood is that the Conservatives: will again defeat the opposition Labor Party for a third straight victory—a feat un- matched in this century except by the Liberals before the First World War, 1906-1910. It is a sad commen-. tary on the ephemeral nature-of pol- itical- triumphs to note the practical disappearance of this once dominant party as a factor in the forthcoming @ontest. r

Labor, of course, may be stronger than the pollsters predict, and Con- leaders themselves. are warninz-their supporters against any feeling of complacency. But they are taking fortune at its flood. Their five-vear mandate expires next May, and. thev can point to ‘concrete achievements at home and abroad. Mr. Macmillan played a vital part in easing tension with the Soviet Un- fon during his ‘visit to Moscow in

events which led to President Eisen-

hower’s European trip and the pre- |

parations now under way at SWash- ington for receiving the Soviet Premier. co

At home, prices: have remained steady, unemployment hovers around 2 per cent and there is a boom fp the consumption of consumer goods

/+guch as Britain has never known,

The oddest part. of the foreign policy situation, according a Con- gervative spokesman, is that “what- ever may be. said abroad or at home,

- the Prime Minister was not thinking

of voters when he went to Moseow. : He thought—we al! thoughtthat the sitaation over Berlin and Ger- ‘was deteriorating so fast that

phad better go anti talk tte hev. Well, he did, and it t well. If he and the. party

and other Asian countries: obtrusively ‘on his way. His “land, plum-in-the-mouth manner”

look at the unofficial forecasts. The -.last one published gave the-Govern-

ment 42 per cent of théegtotal vote, the Laborites 37 per cyt and the Liberals 7 per cent,

with 14 per cent undecided. .

Laos And The-UN.

As anticipated, the Russian dele-

| gate at the U.N. Security Council |

has voted against setting up a special ‘study the situation in Laos. There appears to be some dispute whether this negative vote amounted to a

posal submitted by the United States, Britain and- Frances with the sup- port of Canada. 10 members of the Council, including the*president, took the position that it was-not a sub- ject on which the veto could be ex- ercised) since it -fell short of the Laotian request that a U.N.. emer: gency force be sent to the country. ©

. Apart from the Soviet veto threat in t to see what concrete action the Unit- ed Nations can take in the matter. Under Article I of the Charter, its members are committed. to e “ef- fective collective measures” for the suppression of acts of aggression. But the U.N. has no standing army. The only time it has dispatched troops in defence against aggression was in Korea in 1950, after the

the fight. The only U.N: military unit in exigtence is the Emergency

Arab Republie border; and this is a Police unit, not a fighting’ force.

In the meantime, the fate of a little kingdom of 89,000 square miles in the heart of Southeast Asia is

using world eoncern. Communist border aggression is building up to a point where it threatens the most ‘serious armed conflict on the Asian ' mainland since the Indo-China war ended in a truce five years ago. In proclaiming a state of emergency and appealing to the United Nations to intervene, Laos has really put that organization on the spot, rais- ing the spectre of another Korea with similar international implicat- fons.

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EDITORAL NOTES

The stage and screen have lost a great actor in the passing of Mr. Edmund Gwenn, who at eighty-four

long way to see him in ‘one of his

favorite roles again. : * ¢ @

Mr. Heath Mavquarrie, M.P., has again been appoint the Canadian delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations which opens in New York on September 15. No better

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February, and sparking a chain of

quarrie is one of the best informed

*men in Parliament on: international

affairs. s Ls * * s. ‘

The fire which gutted a large sec- tion of the Driving Park grandstand is a setback to the Association, since it will have to close for the balance of the season. But new and better facilities will doubtless be provided, perhaps in the form of a concrete and steel structure. e _* 8 @

A reportedly __revoluntionary mathematics ‘program is to be. test- ed in 20 grade nine Ontario schools this year. The changes proposed are not yet known. in detail, but their effect will be to introduce more ad- vanced work into the upper years

| of high school, while shifting some

’ material back to grades nine and ten. Compression and integration will be employed to reduce the amount of work ‘in the courses at present taught. A special course for older students who plan to study mathe-

sity will be provided. The subject, # is believed,: will-be made more stim-

edit for it now, why |

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granting of independence to India - Mean- | while, the Prime Minister goes un- -

. is.a source of extreme annoyance to. his opponents, especially when they:

fact-finding committee to.

_ formal veto, which would kill the pro- -

Security Council, it is difficult .

’ United States had already -engered ,

' Force patroling the Israeli-United .

could still outclass most of the ris- - ing stars of today’ We would go a-

choice could be made, for Mr. Mac-

matics and the sciences at univer- [

THE GIRLS HE LEFT BEHIND HIM

-LONDON REPORT Pearso

In a recent article in this news- paper, Patrick Nicholson, it’s Or- tawa correspondent, wrote of a suggestion that Hon._Lester B. Pearson should resign from the’ leadership of the Liberal party and allow himself to become a one-man international rallying point and leader for the forces of | anti Communism.

me, because of a conversatiof I had while in Paris recently with the foreign editor of probably the most influential of the French newspapers. The subject of that -conversation, in which he ex- pressed not only his own views but those of others close to NATO and the United Nations, was Les- ter B. Pearson, and Canada's de- cline in the field of international

Ice Breakers & Air Bubbles

Canadian Press, Montreal

Icebreakers and air bubbles can , be used to keep channels such as the St. Lawrence Seaway open | to ‘ship traffic during winter, but the dost could be too high to make the system profitable

Scientists at the International Hydraulics Congress Thurs- day, discussed winter shipping problems and concluded it is pos- sible to keep waterways nav- | igable and free from thick ice under severe winter conditions.

Russian and Japanese scientists said they have stuck to icebreak- | ers as their main tool for kéep- | ing water channels free 4

But a Swedish scientist said his country has made important experiments using warm air bub- bles to keep a wide ice‘tree Ppas- | Sage in winter in Swedish canals. |

PERFORATED PIPES

Professor O. Gustafsson of the | Royal Institute of Technology, Lidingo, Sweden, said perforated | plastie pipes were placed in the water and warm compressed air forced through the holes eauses the water to warm andj metal surface ice, resulting in -an icefree channel wide enough for Passage of ships. .

J. B. Bryce of Ontario Hydro, Toronto, said he is skeptical about applying a similar system

Toward N

A possible compromise formula op key points holding up the Gen-

eva conference on banning nuc- | lear arms tests is believed to have |

been agreed upon by Prime Min- ister Macmillan and President Eisenhower. :

If this is so, President Eisen- hower may have to convert Pres- idem de Gaulle, whose plan for testing a French nucjear bom) could break the present truce, and later Premier Khrushchev, when the Russian leader visits Wash ington.

Agreement among all the lead- ers of the big powers is not out of . the question. BR coukd mean tha! temporary. suspension of testing these horror weapons -would _ be- come permanent, under interna- tional inspection and in that case the way would be open to further progress toward arms control.

GENEVA CONFERENCE

The Geneva conference of rep- resentatives of the United States Britain and Russia adjourned on August 26, pending. consideration

progress which, all things consid- ered, is remiarkable. Of a 24-art- icle draft treaty, 17 articles have been approved simce last October

throughout the world is one prob-

lem yet to be resolved. Russia

n Missed_In NATO By M. McIntyre Hood ~— : Special Correspondent ,London, England

| Strongest men in the free world camp, and a man whose wisdom 4 and experience counted i eel | This suggestion has intrigued |

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affairs since he became leader of the opposition. WAS STRONG MAN :

The gist of what he said, with- out giving any direct quotes, was this. Lester Pearson was recog- nized as one of the world's

in the affairs of NATO and the United Nations. It was inevitable that his leadership and counsel, his flair for finding solutions for grave problems, should be great- ly missed in these two bodies.

This foreign editor. persenal- ly, and as a matter of consider- ing the welfare of Nato and the United Nations, .deplored the fact | that Mr. Pearson nad departed from the international scene. No

along the St. Lawrence River and s@away.

He said the St. Lawrence pas sage is longer than any waterway in Sweden and the cost of pre paring a compressed air system — the entire length would be

igh. ay

In any combination. icebraker- air bubble project the costs of using icebreakers all winter would be prohibitive, he said. ICE-FREE CHANNELS

C. W. Thomas, head of the hy- draulic investigation bureau. Den- ver, said the bubble system has been used successfully to provide ice-free channels for hydro-elec- tric installations. With more re- search the system could be adap- ted profitably for extended navi- gation channels, he said.

The bubble system could be

used to“ké@p harbor piers and.

lock gates free from-ice at rela- tively low cost.

“I know little about icebreak- cers, but if it. is possible for then? to operate successfully along the

This | length of the passage compressed |

air could certaingly do the’ trick at the lock gates and in the, ports.”

About 400 scientists from across the world are attending the con- oe at the University of, Mon- real.

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place him and the leadership he gave. And, as‘a result, Canada’s part in NATO and &s influence in world affairs had sadly.dectin-_ ed. He was quite frank in his statement that Canada's voice was no longer heard with the authority it carried when Mr. Pearson was its spokesman.

EXPERIENCE WILL’ GOME My friend recognized. course, »that Mr. Pearson had years .of experience in international af- fairs behind him, and that Prime Minister Diefenbaxer and his minister of external affairs had in as apprentices and learn

the technicalities of international dealings. In time, he felt. they might gain experience and be able to make their presence feit as Mr. Pearson had done

One quote from him “I tell vou that Mike Pearson is very badly anissed in NATO and the UNI- ED NATIONS, and Canada does not seem, as yet to have provid- ed any adequate successor to him.”

PUBLIC FORUM

This column ts open to the discus

sion by correspondents of question ¢.

ipterest. The Guardian does not neses

sarily ex‘orse the opinion of corres pondents.

GREETINGS FROM OHIO | Sir:—My husband and I have | returned from our delightful va- cation and once more are back ‘in the usual routine

Our trip took us through New York State up to Ottawa, then Montreal, Quebec, N.B., and on to P.E.I.. returning by way of Boston. How we enjoyed meeting

| gret the lack of time that would not allow" us*to. visit them all. But the ones we did not see were also in our thoughts. Sadness too was mingled with joy because some had gone to their eternal home. ' We wish to.thank.so very much the people for théir wonderful hospitality. would take’ many Pages to enumerate what we saw and did. Not the least of our ex- periences were attending church in Margate church) and the privilege of Meeting with friends in the Lot 8 Presbyterian church. It was thrill to stand with my mother ‘before the altar where I was christened ‘just .. . .years ago). The Island is prospering and its people have sent many noted people forth into the world bear- ing’ testimony to the character and-fineness of the pioneers who persevered unti] now the Island has become a tourists. Paradise.

ed. that g proportion of the could be ‘drawn from other coun- tries. E On the freedom of inspectors to check disturbances that might be earthquakes or nuclear tests, the Russians will not let foreign- ers poke around all over their country. But they agree that a certain number of such investiga- tions should be permitted each year.

WORLD OPINION ~

Each of the two great atomic power's is believed to have enough miclear weapons to destroy the

fore much less point than former: ly. -

_ Moreover, world opinion—as re- flected by the World Council of Churches a few days ago — is strongly against it. Even most timistic scientists concede that fall-out. js already doing some farm to the human race.

But if France conducts teste, the Russiams \will consider them- selves free to do so again, and other countries,. among them ‘Communist China, may wish to join “the nuclear club.” In Bri- tain, a great mapy people are lmg to resign from the club other countries keep out, and Labor Party has expressed inclination. ‘

The Age Old Story

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We are, Sir, etc.. MRS. CHAS. DENNIS (nee Jean McPherson)

| Senge. Ohio, U.S.A. ~~

SCHQOL BOARD'S DUTY -Sir,—As a taxpayer in the city of ours I understand, that the School Board has : uch power over the City Council that they can just build a new school and send the bill to the Council.

As proof of this we have two

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Schools in this city. The price ‘for these schools has..been high and we pay for them by. not hav- ing decent streets, decent ‘side- walks and so on. Most of us are not ton cémplaining about this as we realize our children _must come first. Why ‘can't we take this a little further and say. ‘‘all

children must come first.” If we did this ‘we would also consider the children in the primary

schools who live in dirty, dusty conditions in buildings that are surrounded by dirt and dust in- stead of grass and pavement. As an example take West Kent School. The front yard is hollow- ed out by the feet of generations of youngsters much as the Pro- vincial Building entry is. The latter represents the travelling of many statesmen, and scroung- ers, while the former represents a “couldn't care less’’ attitude on the part of too many people. Why ean't this space and other simi- far spaces around. other schools he turned into protected grass or paverfent? The days of dirt and dust’ should be gone.

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Which brings me to the point I am trying to make.

One of the chief problems con- fronting doctors today in the quest to save cancer victims is the-apathetic attitude’ of the gen- eral_ public. "i KNOW DANGER SIGNALS

For one thing, all of you should

of cancer. All of you stould have an’ annual-or semi-annual physi- cal checkup. ;

Since about half of you_ will be touched in ome way or anoth- er- by the cancer problem, you must.be prepared for the pros- pect. You must learn to trust your doctor and to id quacks and their useless “remedies.” QUESTION AND ANSWER

A reader: For some time I have successfully used hormone cream but now am told that it can cause cancer: Is this true?

Answer: As a rule, hormone creams. have no more effect, | either beneficial! or harmful, than | the same creams would have

kick. It is my understanding that the new Premier is going to pay teachers’ salaries, so Charlott@as town will have hundreds of thous- ands of new money. I know there are lots of places where it is needed but surely there is no finer place to spend fifty thous- and dollars. Tye children will be cleaner, healthier and happier and the parents will not be com- plaining about sending their chil- dren to those ‘‘dirty old schools.”

The summer was the time to do this but let us do it NOW. Wait- ing seems to get us nowhere. While we are at it we should start vear No. J of a 3-year pro- gram to bring these old schools up to a decent standard.

I do not know any of the care takers of these schools,’ but I have been assured that they are all doing everything possible to keep them decent. Our street | cleaners work hard too but their's. is an impossible task.

I think the people of Charlotte- town should be told what. they can expect in this direction. It is the School Bodrd’s duty to tell us and while they are at it they | can tell us why some children have to travel a mile and one half or two miles to get to their schools :

I am, Sir, etc.. “FED UP MOTHER”

LIGHT. LIFE AND LOVE Sir,—lt is difficult to define any of these. Of light we'can only say that its opposite is darkness or absence of light, something negative. Who can tell what life is? The scientist never saw it, handled it, much less created it. We know as much as he does, about it. We simply see its evid- ence.

Love in its several manifest actions: (how wonderful! From bihe inst pctive love of the bear for her cubs, to the sex appeal in the human family or the hatred shown by parents against any that would harm their offspring till we come to a higher level or order of love. that goes farther out than family, crosses the bounds of race, colour and cul- ture, even to the point of loving one’s enemy. We can not say that God created love, for God IS Love. -

As children’ we might ask: Where is God? and be told that He is everywhere, even in the garden seeds in springtime. that are ready to get a chance to pro- duce fruit or flower, in the new born infant and im the heart of the patriot who dies for his coun-

As our dark weather fav blight so death brings, ay. But hate is more than negative.

brought disease to Starr Dail- @y in every organ of his body. This mati ‘spent 2 years behind prison bais, in which time he gave ali his attention to the hatred of the place and the staff. He - it bis daily thought. That may be twenty years ago. Since then Re is a writer of books. the first being “Love can pen -ptison doots.’’ His latest, ‘Faith se and Love". His remedy for hatred is ‘to harp daily on some good quality: that our enemy_possesses.._So hy Mr. Dail- @y's reasoning, we can open our own prison doors, as we discover [ that our hateful neighbor has turned into a friend. °

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The wealthy German-American archietect Hans Teichert has. fin- ally realized his dream: He is ig prison. To be exact, he Hae mov- ed into’ the old city prison at

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t that he has changed the jail into a vertiable palace and has decorated it with an art col- lection that was not available to Previous tenants.—Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Munich

Pierre Duval was arrested for removing parking tickets from under the windshield wipers of parked cars and replacing them with advertisements for a local garage. He explained that # he

owners would have been so annoy- ed by them they would have paid no attention to the adver tisenients. — L'Union, Rheims, France r) ;

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian~Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Sept. 9, 1934) Members of the choir and con-

gregation of Trinity United

Church gathered at the home of Mr. John Bowness, Summerside, on Monday to tender farewell to Mr. and Mrs. Roland Phillipson on the eve of their departure to Albany, where Mr. Phillipson is opening a general store.

Three daring young mariners, Frank Kenny, Whylie Hamilton and Harold Page, natives of Rex- ton, N.B. made port at West Point wharf recently in a howling gale in their miniature sail yacht. At present they are the guests of Mr. W.L. Mclisaac, West Point.

-TEN YEARS AGO (Sept. 9,949) Announcement was .made yes terday of the appointment of two new secretaries to the staff of the local Y.M.C.A. Mr. Fred Tyler, a native of Saskatchewan, has been appointed to the posi- tion of Roys’ Work Secretary, Miss Lillian R. Gehrke of Van ‘eouver has been appointed a@

Girls’ Work Secretary.

Walter L. Conrad. son of Lt Col. F.B. Conrad and Mrs. Con- rad, Charlottetown, leaves on Sat : to attend the Royal Milt-

ry Gollege at Kingston,.Ontario. Mr. Conrad won a $500 open Do

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